Skirt-pin.



F. E. RULE.

SKlRT PIN.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 1. I918.

Patented Sept. 10, 1918.

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FRANCES ELEANOR RULE, OF HAMPTON, IOWA.

SKIRT-PIN.

Application filed March 1, 1918.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANCES ELEANOR RULE, a itizen of the United States, residing at Hampton, in the county of Franklin and State of Iowa, have invented new. and useful Improvements in Skirt- Pins, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to an improved garment supporting device, its principal object being to provide a pin having means for attachment to a garment at more than one point, whereby a skirt and waist may be at tached together at different points and the former, thereby, more securely held in place.

A second object of the invention is to provide a flexible metallic strip having pivotally mounted pins at either end, the pins being made to engage the garments and the strip yieldingly to conform to the contour of the waist line.

Other and further objects will appear as the device is set forth in detail in the following description.

The invention is disclosed in but one form to which, however, it is not to be restricted. The right is reserved to make any changes or alterations which practical application of the device may suggest, provided such changes or alterations fall within the limits prescribed by the subjoined claim.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is an elevation of a lower portion of a waist and upper portion of a skirt, showing the practical application of the invention.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view looking at that side of the device on which the pins are mounted.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates a flexible strip which may be made of base or precious metal and, if desired, ornamented with a suitable decorative engraving formed on the faceQ. On the back face 3, the strip 1 has secured to it two pins 4:. One of the pins 4 is pivotally mounted between two ears 5 attached near the end of the strip. These ears 5 may be made integral parts of the strip or fixed thereto by solder or any other suitable means of attachment. The other pin 4 is pivotally mounted between two ears 6 positioned a specified distance from the other end of the strip 1. These ears 6 are identical with those ears 5 and are intended to be attached to the strip 1 in the same man- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 10, 1918.

Serial No. 219,864.

ner as the ears 5 are attached. The hook member 7 is aflixed on the back of the strip 1 adjacent that end near which the ears 5 are positioned. A hook member 8 is similarly fixed on the back of the strip 1, and at a distance from the ears 5 equal to the distance between ears 6 and hook 7. The hooks 7 and 8 may be made an integral part of or afiixed to the strip 1 by any suitable means of attachment, such as solder. These hook members are intended to be engaged by the pins after the latter have been inserted through the garments and the pins are thus held in place in the garment.

The application of the device is apparent from the disclosure in the drawing, and it will be noted that the strip 1, being flexible, can be bent to con-form to the shape of the waist line, the spring of this strip, after the pins have been passed through the garment and connected with the hooks 7 and 8 respectively, serving to hold the pins and hooks 7 and 8 in engagement.

Both pins having the same relative positions on the strip 1 makes it easy for both to be inserted in a garment without wrinkling the latter, such as would be necessary if the pins pointed toward or away from each other. Both pins pointing in the same direction. the device is easily attached to garments by starting the pins 4 into the latter and moving the strip 1 longitudinally. This operation will pass the pins through the garment and, when the points project out of the goods, they may be made to engage the hooks 7 and 8, when the resiliency of the strip 1 (which it is presumed has been bent to conform to the curve of the waist line) will serve to hold the hooks and pins in engagement.

Aside from providing a neat and efficient device for use with body garments, the device, by the employment of two pins, enables the skirt to be attached to the waist at two different points and thereby more securely held in. position.

The invention having been described, what is claimed as new and useful is A skirt pin comprising a flexible metallic strip, pairs of ears formed on one face thereof, one pair being adiacent the end of the strip, the other pair being a specified distance from the end, hooks formed on the same face of the strip with the ears, one hook mg in the same direction, whereby the strip may be made to yield to conform to the contour of the waist lineso that the pins may engage body garments at difl'erent points, 10 the resiliency of the. strip keeping the pins in engagement with the hooks.

v In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

MISS FRANCES ELEANOR RULE.

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